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Date:	Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:28:34 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: DOS install

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In <3C27FDAA.1792@peterskye.com>, on 12/24/01
at 08:17 PM, Peter Skye said:

>.. or it's a Compaq with a plug-in IDE controller. The Compaq here needs
>a driver for the controller card. (The Secondary port isn't available
>unless you use the driver.)

That's ugly. The cards I know are nice enough to contain BIOS code.

>in the two lines should be identical otherwise it won't work. The /m is
>the number of buffers, Steve must be rich he's using 10 sector buffers
>(each buffer is 2KB). My notes say they strongly recommend using /e if

That's only 20KB which even back in the memory constrained days was not
all that much.

That said, I rarely boot to this partition, so performance is not an
issue. The partition has DOS 5.0 installed on it because that's what was
there when I bought the computer that morphed into this one.

Steven

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